10 Culture Shocks Living In The UK

Basically, London is a completely different world to the rest of England!

An amazing positive cultural shock: museums are free!

Greenwich observatory is literally the centre of the world.its where time and navigation starts.. the reason is that the first reliable time piece or chronometer was placed in the building while it's brother was taken by captain Cook around the other side of the world and back, upon return the two pieces were compared to see if they kept the same time.... they had as little as a couple of seconds difference, this was the biggest breakthrough in navigating history.....( Having an accurate time piece meant ships could sail in open seas and not have to keep land in sight)...... Longitude line " zero or O" on the world map is directly through Greenwich...... So accurate navigation and accurate time keeping in any atmospheric conditions is yet another British invention.....

The college you were talking about was built in the late 1600's as a hospital for seamen. Then in the late 1800's it became the Royal Naval College where navy officers were trained. Then, in 1998 it became the University of Greenwich. It has some amazing painted ceilings and architecture. I believe it was a Wren building.

As a Brit it really made me smile when you said London looked like Harry Potter There is so much wonderful architecture in London, the history is fascinating. I live in the Shires about an hour north of London and i love going into london for a day trip, it is a very culturally diverse city, however to get a true flavour of Britain you need to travel outside of london. Also this new fashion with the fake eyelashes is awful and looks chavy in my opinion.😊

Hello guys, service charge is not compulsory to pay, and yes it’s a tip usually divided among all front of house and kitchen staff. If you don’t have a good service you can totally ask for the charge to be taken off your bill since it’s discretionary, hope it helps 😊

Try to travel up north to Yorkshire especially York. The city goes back in history as far as the Vikings. The Yorkshire coast very picturesque. Whitby is where Bram Stokers Dracula have landed in his novel. Well worth the visit.

We drive on the left side of the road because 90% of people are right handed so when you hold a lance (in your right hand) whilst on the back of a horse you are closest to your opponent. We stand on the right side of an escalator for the same reason, you can use your dominant hand to hold the rail. You can chose to remove the service charge if you are unhappy with the service.

London isn’t really like the rest of the UK , some things are the same but you really need to visit other places to get a real sense of what we’re really like . A major thing is people are a lot friendlier outside of London lol 😂.

As a Mexican that has lived in the UK for almost 9y now I can tell you that since Mexico I've learned to look both sides on the street (nunca falta el pendejo) and that saved me here when moving to the UK as I always looked to the "wrong side" in Mexico. Regardless the currency its true, pretty much since the pandemic no one uses cash now, which was annoying back in Mexico as they have the card machines with the contactless "but its not working" hahaha For the pre-cook meals I've heard somewhere that this come since the WWII I think where UK struggled with food and with gas that big companies started making them and since then they are available. The tip I think is mostly in big cities and depending on the restaurant, outside its not common to have it included and you can actually refuse to give it. Things that I have noticed and got into my nerves is that most of the toilets, when you want to wash your hands they have either cold or hot water, so either you freeze your hands or get them burn (the water is pretty hot) which is so annoying as a 1st world country. Also the girls in here tend to look very ... orange, they use a lot of fake tan and sometimes you can see the lines. Keep enjoying guys!

I'm from UK. (And a fellow potterhead) I have never heard of having to walk on a certain side of the street. Just walk where you want.

I´m catching up to all your daily videos and I´M LOVING IT. It felt like you were not as interested in making videos anymore for a bit (which is fine) and it just feels like you´re yourselves again. Traveling was a big part of your lives and i´m glad to see you bringing it back.

I think London is very different to the rest of the UK. Nobody is obliged to pay service charges in restaurants. It is something people do only if they want and some people don't. Covid changed things in the UK. People use contact less a lot now as we were encouraged to do so to help stop infection. I had to change my habits as I was a prefers cash girl. It has just become a habit now. The UK has a lot more to offer than London.

I don’t live in London, but have noticed a lot of places have gone cashless, which I personally don’t like. I couldn’t help but laugh when you said British girls look ‘British’. But thinking about it, I actually say the same about Eastern European girls. Not by the makeup, but by the shape of their faces 🤷🏼‍♀️

Did you notice the metal line on the ground at Greenwich? It represents the Prime Meridian of the World -- Longitude 0. Everywhere on earth is measured in terms of distance east and west from this line.

This winter in the UK is colder than other years to be honest. The sad part about the plastic issue is not all councils recycle the plastic trays, so yeah there's a lot of waste.

Brit here (outside of London). I can confirm that the cashless thing is pretty much everywhere now. The few places that don't have card machines are generally small, local service businesses like dance classes, and they generally accept direct bank transfer as payment if you don't have cash. In the UK you can send an instant bank transfer to anyone for free under something like £15 000 if you have their account details, so it's super convenient. I completely stopped taking my wallet with me anywhere after the pandemic, and now I just bring ID and my phone for making contactless payments, since there's effectively no upper limit for contactless when it's on a phone because you have to authenticate it.

The “ready made meals”, as we call them, are most definitely a British thing all over the country. It was a cultural shock for me too, as well as the amount of sandwiches they have in almost any store! And as soon as Joss mentioned the makeup I was like EYELASHES, because yesss! It’s such a common thing in young british girls. Personally, I don’t like it lol, but you do see it a lot and IT IS A THING. Love you guys! Enjoy your stay here and come to visit me in Sussex please 😂😂💖

If you want a to walk up a street that really feels like Harry Potter, you'll love The Shambles in York! It's what the Diagon Alley set was based on in the films.

The Look Left/Right thing is only prevalent in cities with higher levels of (international) tourism. The rural parts of the U.K. lack it.